AMD Radeon R7 260X: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R7 260X sales 8 October 2013 at a recommended price of $139. This is GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 104 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. 1 x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 115 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 16.99 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon R7 260X's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

204

Perfomance to price

28.34

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Code name

Bonaire

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

8 October 2013

Launch price (MSRP)

$139

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$239

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon R7 260X's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 260X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

896

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

2,080 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

61.60

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R7 260X's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

170 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 260X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 260X.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R7 260X. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

DDMA audio

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R7 260X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

OpenGL

4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R7 260X. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

17.12

Passmark

3159

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

4380

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R7 260X. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

225 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

5.16 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon R7 260X performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

105.18 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

104.89 %

AMD Radeon R7 360

101.47 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

100 %

AMD Radeon R7 260X

99.82 %

AMD Radeon HD 6950

99.29 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

97.59 %

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R7 260X from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, which is slower by 1% and lower by 4 positions in our rating.